Resistance is futile…you will be Assembled!
I totally and shameless just stole my title for this blog from the winner of the Evomics t-shirt competition in 2012 for the Workshop on Genomics. Dr. Rayan Chikhi Pennsylvania …
BWA, SOAP, MAQ, BLAT…OMG Alignment Methods!
Before launching into today’s lecture, Konrad update us on the news that came out of Illumina. Illumina basically giving the finger to other technologies…ahem Ion Torrent…The Next-Seq 500 and HiSeq …
Faculty Highlight: Mike Zody
Workshop on Genomics 2014 Faculty Highlight Mike Zody The Broad Institute Chief Sequencing Technologist Sequencing Guru Software Engineer We think at night he puts on a mask and cape and …
Ikea: Some assembly required?
Participant Discussions So last year I was inspired after just reading all three books in the Lord of the Rings series and thematically pooled our student discussion under the inspiration …
Quality control: Appreciating the trees in your forest
So I never fully appreciated the value of knowing and assessing the quality of my data until the advent of Next Generation Sequencing. With Sanger sequencing it’s easy enough to …